Advanced Onion Router is designed to be a client for OR network and intended to be an improved alternative for Tor+Vidalia+Privoxy bundle for Windows users. It is able to "force" a program and its plugins to use the Tor proxy regardless of its configured proxy settings.
Onion Routing is a distributed overlay network designed to anonymize TCP-based applications like web browsing, secure shell, and instant messaging. Clients choose a path through the network and build a circuit, in which each node (or “onion router” or “OR”) in the path knows its predecessor and successor, but no other nodes in the circuit. Traffic flows down the circuit in fixed-size cells, which are unwrapped by a
symmetric key at each node (like the layers of an onion) and relayed downstream.
What's New in This Release:
· corrected: AdvOR.dll was checking for the old signature "AdvTor" instead of "AdvOR" when releasing intercepted processes
· corrected: the options to avoid using in same circuit nodes from same subnets and countries are no longer disabled when enabling the option to avoid AS path intersections
· the code was restructured to get rid of all goto's inherited from Tor; some functions were optimized and some memory leaks were corrected
· directory servers running AdvOR no longer accept requests for "/tor/bytes.txt", "/tor/mallinfo.txt" and "/tor/dbg-stability.txt" ; requests for them will result in 404 errors
· new configuation option: Confirmations; currently it is used to configure confirmation dialogs that are shown at exit and when closing non-proxy connections of an intercepted process
· when changing the identity, more information is shown about the new identity when possible
· the option "Circuit timeout when exiting program" was moved from the Circuit Build page to the "Become a Server" ...